Fixing lunch: Healthy meals build a healthy nation
Quick gratification at the expense of long-term progress, typical of the Trump administration, can be seen in rollbacks to nutrition requirements for school meals.
View ArticleLarned & Sons to move Stitt Road soon
GUILDERLAND — Town officials are eager to have William Larned & Sons move Stitt Road as promised years ago. The company has a large mine located near the road.Josh Plue, a project manager with...
View ArticleDriver fell asleep, then crashed on Altamont-Voorheesville Road, police say
GUILDERLAND — On Friday, Aug. 18, at about 11:47 p.m., Denise C. Johnsen of 60 Pheasant Run in Voorheesville crashed her vehicle in the area of 927 Altamont-Voorheesville Road, said Guilderland Deputy...
View ArticleIn Guilderland, the two small parties endorse the incumbents
GUILDERLAND — The incumbent Democratic slate in Guilderland — Peter Barber for supervisor and Patricia Slavick and Paul Pastore for town board — has been endorsed by the town’s largest small parties,...
View ArticleCounty third parties endorse varied slates
Albany County’s Independence and Conservative parties have each endorsed a slate of Berne candidates, including those running against one another. In Knox, the Independence Party endorsed a slate of...
View ArticleR’ville GOP still searching for supervisor candidate
As both Democrats and Republicans in Rensselaerville reflect on their difficulties in finding willing candidates, Republicans are still searching for a nominee for town supervisor. Current supervisor...
View ArticleOliver rallies Legion Riders to help veterans
Steve Oliver, president of the Helderberg Chapter of the American Legion Riders Post 977, on Saturday became one of just 120 people in the country to ever receive the national organization’s highest...
View ArticleDella Rocco becomes an ECO
Taylor M. Della Rocco of Berne is among 31 newly graduated Environmental Conservation Officers.The Basic School from which Della Rocco graduated was held at the Office of Public Protection's Training...
View ArticleEagle Scout Bryson Gibson to go on two-year mission trip
VOORHEESVILLE — Bryson Gibson, a member of Troop 84, has completed his Eagle Scout project — a mini-lending library in Voorheesville’s Nichols Park — and is off to parts unknown.The son of David and...
View ArticleKnox crash leaves one dead, one injured
In Knox, a motorcycle carrying two people collided with a car at the intersection of Thompson’s Lake Road and Old Stage Road, leaving the motorcycle driver dead and his passenger injured.
View ArticleKitchen a loss but house saved in fire on Meadowdale Road
There were no injuries in a house fire Thursday afternoon that destroyed the kitchen at 1154 Meadowdale Road in Guilderland Center.
View ArticleBerne Doppler tower back in action
A Doppler radar tower that is based in East Berne and supplies information for most of the Capital Region was out of service for over two weeks, leaving meteorologists to look to other means of...
View ArticleTwo UAlbany students convicted of sexual misconduct in ‘Houdini’ assault
The two former University at Albany students got six years’ probation each, on misdemeanor charges. They also will need to register as sex offenders, and they were dismissed from the university.
View ArticleGuilderland unsuccessful in appealing new state-set equalization rate
A dramatic change in Guilderland’s equalization rate, set by the state, means Guilderland residents will pay more in county taxes and in school districts like Voorheesville’s. Also, the value of...
View ArticleIn Dem primary, Plotsky challenges Duncan
In the Sept. 12 Democratic primary, Victoria Plotsky, a lawyer running on reform, is challenging Darrell Duncan, the former county commissioner of public works, to represent parts of New Scotland and...
View ArticleProperty revaluation: 1,000 standards = no standard at all
To guarantee that residents across New York are paying their fair share of taxes, the state needs a law with enforcement teeth to set a common requirement for full-value assessment.
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